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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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